Monthly Archives: April 2008

A very fine article appeared in Il Timone, a good Italian publication intended for lay people, especially families.  It is slowly but surely taking the place that the entirely squishy Famiglia Cristiana hold.  The later is distributed through the bishops … Read More →

With a tip of the biretta to St. Louis Catholic, I share the following great news: TO: THE PRESBYTERATE OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF SAINT LOUIS AND THE MEMBERS OF THE ARCHDIOCESAN CURIA FROM: ARCHBISHOP RAYMOND L. BURKE REGARDING: CREATION OF … Read More →

I picked this up from Mark Shea’s place.  Take a gander at the spittle flecked anti-Catholic wacko disrupting a Mass in this YouTube video. [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNG5ILNWwik] Some people’s kids, huh? This reminds me of something from years ago.  The late Msgr. … Read More →

  My friend Mr. John L. Allen, Jr., the fair-minded and nearly ubiquitous former Rome correspondent for the left-leaning National Catholic Reporter has an interesting aside in this week’s Friday missive.  Just start reading and you’ll get to it, which … Read More →

This comment is posted on VIS: COMMUNIQUE OF THE SECRETARIATE OF STATE Following the publication of the new Prayer for the Jews for the 1962 edition of the Roman Missal, some groups within the Jewish community have expressed disappointment that … Read More →

This is in from Zenit: Postulator Named to Sister Lucia’s Cause COIMBRA, Portugal, APRIL 2, 2008 (Zenit.org).- Spanish Father Ildefonso Moriones was named the postulator of the cause of beatification of Sister Lucia, one of the three Fatima visionaries. Father … Read More →

Here is the sermon… in Italian.  Sorry… I read it. ♦ CAPPELLA PAPALE NEL TERZO ANNIVERSARIO DELLA MORTE DEL SOMMO PONTEFICE GIOVANNI PAOLO II Questa mattina, alle ore 10.30, il Santo Padre Benedetto XVI presiede, sul sagrato della Basilica Vaticana, … Read More →

Tonight I had supper with one of the ten smartest people I know. A parish priest from St. Paul.  This is one of the most highly intelligent, but also one of the finest gentlemen I have ever met. We had … Read More →

At The Crescat we find…  "you know you have a blogging problem… when you have weird blogger dreams about making a pilgrimage to meet Fr. Z with other fellow bloggers and the first thought you have when you wake up … Read More →

Some time ago I posted about the response of the Archdiocese for the Military in the USA to requests to implement Summorum Pontificum. In my opinion, as I wrote before, the Military Archdiocese responded in a pretty reasonable way.  Essentially … Read More →